“One of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think, there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.”Barack Obama interview on Chicago Public Radio, 2001
“One of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think, there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.” Barack Obama interview on Chicago Public Radio, 2001
“Maybe I am showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law professor, but you know I am not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. You know the institution just isn't structured that way.... Any of the three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts. I think that, as a practical matter, that our institutions are just poorly equipped to do it.” Barack Obama interview on Chicago Public Radio, 2001
"My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.” Discussion with “Joe the Plumber,” campaign trail, 2008
"It's not that I want to punish your success, I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success, too.” Discussion with “Joe the Plumber,” campaign trail, 2008
“Now, more than ever, we must rededicate ourselves to the notion that we share a common destiny as Americans that I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper. Now, we must all do our part to serve one another; to seek new ideas and new innovation; and to start a new chapter for our great country.” Barack Obama, holiday radio address, 2008
“Painful crisis also provides us with an opportunity to transform our economy to improve the lives of ordinary people.” Barack Obama talking about the recession, 2009
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Rahm Emmanuel, Obama Chief of Staff designate, 2009.
“Barack Obama wants to use the recession to remake the U.S. economy.” John Stossel, ABC reporter for 20/20
“So they will ‘transform our economy.’ Obama’s nearly trillion-dollar plan will not merely repair bridges, fill potholes and fix up schools; it will also impose a utopian vision based on the belief that an economy is a thing to be planned from above.” John Stossel, ABC reporter for 20/20
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” Winston Churchill
From the Godfather’s own words
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Karl Marx
From the Communist Manifesto: Obama’s blueprint?
“…. These measures will, of course, be different in different countries. Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. 6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. 7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. 8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.”…. (From the Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 1848)
Tom Deweese the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report and is the President of the American Policy Center, a grassroots, activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia.
